illustrated: Strawberry 2 1972 – screen print edition of 75 The Third British International Print Biennale in Bradford – Merete Bates writing in the Arts Guardian, Tuesday March 5 1974 Bright yellow AA arrows dedicate the route to the third British International Print Biennale in Bradford. And although attempts to besiege the mill-owners – busy buying and selling in the […]
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illustrated: Strawberry print??? Strawberry Series of Paintings and Prints by David Platts – New Gallery, Batley School of Art and Design (until March 15). W.T. Oliver at the local galleries – writing in the Yorkshire Post Fond as I am of strawberries and cream, when I read that David Platts had produced thirty variations of the image of the strawberry, […]
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illustrated: from the front cover of ‘February in Yorkshire’ magazine (adapted from one of the Strawberry paintings) ‘Art and symbols of the soul of modern man‘ by Stephen Chaplin – ‘February in Yorkshire’ – Your guide to what’s on. Vol4 No.6 published by the Yorkshire Arts Association David Platts (New Gallery, College of Art, Batley – 27 February 1974) has been […]
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illustrated: Strawberry painting 19 1972. Collection: Mr & Mrs Lennox ‘A Viewer’s View’ – David Lennox writing about the ‘Strawberry series’ of paintings in 1972 I look at these paintings, I enjoy them, as a layman. David Platts’ fellow painters will see clearly the resourcefulness of technique which people like me see more faintly ‘from the outside’, as it were. […]
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illustrated: Outfit designed by Norma Chappell – printed wool by David Platts, 1969 Design and Designers – editorial in Fabric Forecast magazine, Autumn / Winter 1971 (snippet)… A teacher with quite different vision is David Platts. Seven years as a graphic designer, followed by a three-year scholarship at the RCA, have left him with an unmistakably graphic approach to textile […]
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